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Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Engineer at ALTEN in Auburn Hills, MI
Job Description
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Position Description:
- The Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Engineer is responsible for benchmarking and concept evaluation for chassis and suspension systems for future vehicle programs.
- It is integral to have strong knowledge of suspension and chassis architecture and components, and strong understanding of cause and effect.
- Responsibilities include target setting, tire specification, CoG calculations, hard point definition and more leveraging subjective vehicle assessments, objective test data analysis and vehicle dynamics principles.
- Hands-on and driving, physical testing, modeling and simulation experience is all valuable in this role.
- Strong ability to work cross-functionally is also a must in this position.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of a Bachelor of Science Engineering Degree from an ABET accredited university or equivalent
- Experience in automotive engineering product development
- Suspension architecture knowledge and development experience
- Vehicle Ride and Handling - Tuning or Development Experience
- Target Setting Experience for Ride and Handling
- K&C Experience
- Knowledge of Modal Alignment and NVH Fundamentals
- Proactive and Reactive problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
- Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience from cross functional interaction
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master of Science Engineering Degree from an ABET accredited university
- Simulation Experience in ADAMS or similar MBD software
- Racing experience/background
- Teamcenter experience
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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